On Fri, July 4, 2025 at 01:01 Niels Dossche wrote:
> There are a few things I will vote no for:
>
> * Deprecate semicolon after case in switch statement.
> People seem to use this and it doesn't seem harmful to have. Just because you
> don't like it doesn't mean we should yeet it.
Can you point to a project in current use where this syntax is intentionally used? I searched quite
extensively
(even well beyond the top 1000 Composer packages where there are zero usages) and only found a tiny
number of
accidental usages (e.g. where all the cases in a switch statement had a normal colon except one
which had a semicolon typo).
Almost all of these were quickly fixed by sending a pull request.
Maybe the unnecessary legacy syntax doesn't seem harmful, but I disagree. Non-standard
alternate syntax can cause confusion
about a potential behavioral difference, and sometimes can even hold back future features (for
example, deprecating the curly
brace array access syntax in PHP 7.4 made it possible to implement property hooks in PHP 8.4).
I updated the RFC to document the planned deprecation message, as well a command which automatically
fixes any usages in a project.
Kind regards,
Theodore Brown